Answer the following questions

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

To the real Jonathan Seagull,

who lives within us all.

Active Vocabulary. Learn the following words and expressions. Recall the situations they were

Used in.

ripple

dodge

webbed feet

beak

to be bone and feathers

midair

to be not alert to listen

by sunup

outcast

to flap around from place to place

dryly

divine

Parts 1-2

Choose one of the following statements and think of possible pluses and minuses:

a) being different from others;

b) following parents’ advice;

c) live according to rules / traditions.

Analyse Jonathan’s actions in Part 1 according to a, b and c.

What would have been different if Jonathan had chosen to act differently?

Would it have been better or worse? How do you know?

Comment on the following expressions from the text:

1. …how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating… to get the idea that our purpose for leaving is to find that perfection and show it forth.
2. You didn’t need faith to fly, you needed to understand flying.
3. The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
4. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too…
5. You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn’t flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn’t have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
6. …the hardest thing in the world is to convince a bird that he is free…
7. Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.

Part 3.

You are invited to speak on your story in the radio programme. After your presentation, one of the callers says the following:

“In your story you are trying to show us that keeping to traditions is bad and the rules of society lead us nowhere. You are telling young people not to follow their parents’ advice. You encourage them to be different from others and not to care about things we must care about. Don’t you think it’s dangerous? Imagine that people really follow your advice? It will be the end of the world, don’t you think?”

Say if statements are true (T) or false (F)

Jonathan was a usual seagull.

At two hundred fifty miles per hour he felt that he was nearing his level-flight maximum speed.

Chiang stayed and worked with the new birds coming in, who were all very bright and quick with their lessons.

It was a month after the Return that the first gull of the Flock crossed the line and asked to learn how to fly.

This rough young Fletcher Gull was a very bad flight-student.

They liked the practice, because it was fast and exciting and it fed a hunger for learning that grew with every lesson.

“To begin with,” he said heavily, “you’ve got to understand that a falcon is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself.”

Find at least 10 different words and expressions used in the text to describe Jonathan. (Parts 1 -2-3)

Answer the following questions

How do you understand the epigraph of the story?

Who are the main characters in "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"?

What made Jonathan different from other seagulls?

Who are the Flock in the story of Jonathan Livingston seagull? How do they react to Jonathan seagull independent-mindedness?

What does flying represent in Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

Where does Jonathan go in Part Two?

What is the problem of this story "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"?

What are the most important symbols in the novel?

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